Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-10-08
EASTERN AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Ldnul0TuS.
The people of the District OF Columhis
will ask Congress to remodel the government
Of the city.
England has nearly eight times more ton.
mage employed in foreign commerce than the
United States.
The report that Judge Naming. Minister to
Mexico, has resigned. is positively denied at
the State Department.
In the haste to organize Potter county.
Texas, it is said the county seat has been To-
Gated in the center of natural lake.
Trouble is again brewing in Morehead,
Kentucky, where the Tolliver and Logan
factions have already spilled much blood.
The number Of lives lost by the wrecking
| o the teamer California in Lake Michigan
! is placed at fourteen and the number saved
at thirteen.
woman of Bay City, Michigan, DISCUS.
| ed herself as a man and cIerked in a store
for a year, and thus obtained admission into
the Knights of Pythias.
A cave mile long has been found under
Talladaga, Ala, presumably the rendezvous
of desperadoes during the war. skeleton
and seventy $40 pieces were found.
The cut rates of the Texas Pacific from
eastern points to FL Paso give promise of
rate war. all of which will tend to help FL
Psso in obtaining control of the Mexican
trade.
The excitement over the negro insurrec.
ton, near Lawrence, Miss. has subsidized.
The whites captured and whipped number
OF negro leaders and ordered them to leave
the State.
Berlin is unusually full Of Americans this
season, although the University is not yet
open and musical work is scarcely begun.
The city is becoming more and more resort
for Americans.
Matches are so cheap now that in the
principal cigar stores when customer ask.
for a match he gets a box. Very good
ma,che, OF the Swedish kind cot less han
half cent a box.
The Gunnison coal deposits cover 200
>quare miles, al d con ain lignites, bitumin
Gus and anthracite varieties. Railroad,
mining and manufacturing interests are
opening up these fields.
Nine persons have been arrested on
cha &c Of being implicated in the murder Of
John KinSeila, near Arklow, Ireland. Kin
sella was killed while resisting emergency
men, who were selling cattle.
Larry Donovan, Of New York, who gained
The consent Of the police by assuring them
there was no danger, jumped from Waterloo
Bridge, London, Engian Thursday, IN tn
presence of a thousand spectators.
Charges against the Northern Pacific Rail
way Company for extortionate freight rates
or wheat from Walla Walla to Portland are
to be presented before the Interstate Com
merce Commission on the i4th inst.
Countess Pecci, the youngest niece of the
Pope, is soon to marry Count Michael Nor
on, member Of the Papa Guard OF Mobiles.
She is the fifth OF the Pope's neces married
since his elevation to the Pontihcate.
Boston is to Guido herself in the Payne
celebration Friday night. Contributions of
nearly ten thousand dollars have been col,
lected, and how to spend the money prop.
erly is just now bothering the people OF
Boston.
No official information has been received
at the Interior Department of the story that
British syndicates are resortng to extreme
measures to dispossess settlers from syndi-
cate lands purchased from Western railroads
in Iowa.
Boston woman wants to found a colony
composed only Of women on sn island in the
Pacific Ocean. She has had TWO applications
already. They are from two widows who
have passed the age Of seventy and given up
all hopes.
All Foo, Chinese laundryman at Green.
field, Mass, is under assest for assaultng
several girls, all under thirteen years of age.
The authorities had great difficulty IN pre-
venting the angere6 people from taking the
Chinaman from prison and yuching him.
A proud mother in Pennsylvania having
given birth to triplets-two boys and a girl
and beng deslrous OF Perpetuating the
Cleveland name, has called them Grover,
Cleveland and Frances respectively, and the
President has suitably acknowledged the
great honor.
The Municipal Council of Paris proposes
10 grant 5000 francs TO the widow OF Game
keeper Brlgnon, recently shot dead on the
French German frontier. The grant will be
accompanied by protest against the wild
| ow's accepting an indemnity from the Ger
| man Government.
A lone highwayman between San Angelo
and Ballinger, Texas, is making stage trav
cling an expensive luxury to passengers.
The robber is said to be gallant, and declin
ed to take S45 from lady, although he OBJ.
tanned a small sum of money all told from
the remaining passengers.
A tunnel between Dover and Calais is
again agitated. The fear of some English.
men that it would be way to invite invasion
of England is disposed of by the assurance
of eminent scientists that it could be filled